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Memo from Stephen J. Adler Concerning Staff Departures

NewsBios Administrator — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:20:07 GMT

Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008
Colleagues:

I'm sad to report that both Frank Comes and Mary Kuntz have signed on with McKinsey Quarterly as editors there, joining a team led by Rik Kirkland, who recently became director of publishing at McKinsey & Co.

Frank leaves us after 31 stellar years. He joined BW as a correspondent in the Pittsburgh bureau, working his way through the Minneapolis, Toronto, and Paris offices before landing in New York in 1989 as international-edition editor. He was senior editor/international before becoming assistant managing editor in 1999. Over the years, he has distinguished himself as a consummate team player, a thoughtful shaper of ideas and copy, and a trusted mentor to dozens of staffers.

Mary joined us as marketing editor in 1995, having previously worked at Newsday and Forbes. She later served with distinction as senior editor for corporate coverage and as an assistant managing editor overseeing finance, corporations and personal business. Most recently, she was content chief for corporate, ideas, and workplace coverage in print and online. Her strong story sense and masterful management of complex projects such as the BW50 made everyone else's job all that much easier.

We have all benefited from their deep commitment to BusinessWeek and to the BusinessWeek culture, and we will miss them both. Please join me in wishing them well at McKinsey.

Best regards, Steve

BusinessWeek Cover Story: Can Greed Save Africa

NewsBios Administrator — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:59:33 GMT

Readers of BusinessWeek have 50 or so opportunities each year to learn what topics Editor-in-Chief Stephen J. Adler feels merit "Cover Story Treatment." While other BW journalists research, report and write these high-profile features, make no mistake that it is Adler whose imprimatur can be found on each of them.

If you want to know Steve Adler, read the cover story in BusinessWeek. It will tell you gobs about how he thinks.

--Dean Rotbart
Executive Editor
NewsBios.com

Recent Business Week Cover Stories:

December 10, 2007 -- Can Greed Save Africa?

     By Roben Farzad

December 3, 2007 -- Fresh Pain for the Uninsured
     By: Brian Grow and Robert Berner
     With: Jessica Silver-Greenberg

November 26, 2007 -- Coming Soon! The Consumer Crunch
     By: Michael Mandel
     With: Peter Coy, Dawn Kopecki and Jane Sasseen

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BusinessWeek's Stephen J. Adler's Top Lieutenants (December 3, 2007)

NewsBios Administrator — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 10:35:54 GMT

Stephen J. Adler is BusinessWeek's editor-in-chief. What follows is a listing of his top lieutenants. For in-depth profiles of any of them, visit NewsBios.com or call us at 1-866-NEWS-070:

Editor-in-Chief

Stephen "Steve" J. Adler (212-512-3366)

Executive Editors:

John A. Byrne (212-512-2511)
Ellen Joan Pollock (212-512-2511)

Assistant Managing Editors:

Paul M. Barrett (212-512-2760)
Brian Bremner (212-512-2511)
Frank J. Comes (212-512-4547)
James E. Ellis (212-512-2511)
Robert Hunter (212-512-2511)
Mary Kuntz (212-512-3295)
Bruce Nussbaum (212-512-6762)
Christopher Power (212-512-3106)
Ciro Scotti (212-512-2225)

Senior Editors:

Robin Ajello (212-512-2404)
Dan Beucke (212-512-6177)
Rose Brade (212-512-4981)
James C. Cooper (212-512-2963)
Mike France (212-512-2511)
Neil Gross (212-512-4338)
Jeffrey M. Laderman (212-512-6839)
David Rocks (212-512-4721)
Kimberly Weisul (212-512-4823(

Chief of Correspondents:

Joseph Weber (312-233-7940)

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Stephen J. Adler Explains Redesign of BusinessWeek

NewsBios Administrator — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:25:12 GMT

Stephen J. Adler, editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek, says today's relaunch of the 78-year-old magazine is aimed at keeping apace with the harried lives of the magazine's 4.8 million weekly readers.

"...we live in your world -- one of intense time pressure, global competition, information overload, and relentless change," Adler writes in his Editor's Memo. "And like you, we can't stand still."

Adler told The New York Times: "We're seeing a reader who is much busier than ever. But if you really add tremendous value to the reader, and they're deeply engaged in the material, the broad premise is: that's good for everyone -- the consumer and the advertiser."

Adler has been at the top of the BusinessWeek masthead since April 2005.

Stephen J. Adler -- A NewsBios "Top 100" Journalist

NewsBios Administrator — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:06:18 GMT

Stephen J. Adler, Editor-in-Chief of BusinessWeek magazine, is one of the 100 most influential business journalists in the United States, according to NewsBios.

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BusinessWeek's Stephen J. Adler -- Good, Bad & Ugly

NewsBios Administrator — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:26:49 GMT

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NewsBios Administrator — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:55:59 GMT

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Stephen J. Adler Appoints Ellen Joan Pollock as Executive Editor of BusinessWeek Magazine

NewsBios Administrator — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:54:29 GMT

NEW YORK, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- BusinessWeek announced today that Ellen Joan Pollock has been named Executive Editor of BusinessWeek magazine. In her new role, Ms. Pollock will be responsible for the editorial operations of BusinessWeek's global print edition. She succeeds John Byrne, who was named Executive Editor/Editor-in-Chief of BusinessWeek.com in June.

"Ellen is an extraordinary journalist, an upbeat and inspiring leader, and just a terrific person," said BusinessWeek Editor-in-Chief Stephen J. Adler. "She joins a strong, dynamic team that is growing only stronger."

Before joining BusinessWeek, Ms. Pollock spent 18 years at The Wall Street Journal. She most recently served as the Deputy Page One editor, managing the senior group of wordsmiths who make up the Page One staff, and editing many important pieces, including much of the series on corporate scandals that won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting. She also supervised a series about living with cancer that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting.

Previously, Ms. Pollock was a senior writer, reporting on such topics as corporate fraud, shareholder activism, and the Whitewater scandal, which she covered from New York, Washington and Little Rock. Prior to joining the Journal as an editor specializing in legal issues in 1989, she was a reporter at The American Lawyer magazine and then editor of The Manhattan Lawyer, a weekly.

Her book, The Pretender: How Martin Frankel Fooled the Financial World and Led the Feds on One of the Most Publicized Manhunts In History, was published in January 2002 by Wall Street Journal Books/Simon & Schuster. Turks & Brahmins, her book about a revolution inside a Wall Street law firm, was published by Simon & Schuster in 1991.

At Age 42, Stephen J. Adler Was Named An Assistant Managing Editor for the WSJ

NewsBios Administrator — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:00:02 GMT

[This article originally appeared in the January 1998 edition of TJFR Business News Reporter, Vol. 11 No. 11]

Stephen J. Adler has been named an assistant managing editor of The
Wall Street Journal. The former deputy Page One editor does not
replace anyone, but rather becomes the Journal’s fourth a.m.e. — a
position one notch below that of the paper’s two deputy managing
editors.

Mr. Adler, 42, has been with the Journal for nearly 10 years and has
spent the last few years focusing on high-profile investigative
pieces, first as investigative projects editor and, since last
January, as deputy Page One editor.

He was the editor of the Journal’s 1996 Pulitzer Prize-winning
coverage of the tobacco industry, written by Alix M. Freedman; and
was also in charge of groundbreaking stories on emerging AIDS
therapies and the Page One piece on the death of basketball star
Reggie Lewis.

In his new role, Mr. Adler will continue to work closely with the
paper’s top investigative reporters to shepherd major story
projects. He will also assist managing editor Paul E. Steiger in “a
variety of news and administrative assignments,” according to Mr.
Steiger’s memo announcing the appointment, “including from time to
time directing the coverage of major running stories that cross
bureau and page lines.”

Mr. Adler’s role will make him the only assistant managing editor
focusing on the paper’s news content. James Pensiero is responsible
for budget, personnel and the news department end of the production
process. Paul Martin Sr. is in charge of quality control, including
investigating possible corrections and policing style. And Carolyn
Phillips has responsibility for recruiting and staff development.
According to one insider, Mr. Steiger’s appointment of Mr. Adler,
whom he likes and trusts, signals that he realizes that he needs some
help with the day-to-day management of the paper.

With the new Dow Jones television partnership with CNBC, the
scheduled introduction early this year of the paper’s Weekend
section, plus The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition and other
projects, Mr. Steiger does not have the time to devote to some of the
paper’s big, interdisciplinary projects that he has long championed.
Meanwhile, Mr. Adler, who had been editor of the American Lawyer
before joining the Journal in 1988, has become the “investigative
journalism guru” at the paper, according to the staffer.

Replacing Mr. Adler as deputy Page One editor is William Grueskin,
an editor on Page One who joined the Journal only two years ago. Mr.
Grueskin joined from the Miami Herald, where he had been city editor,
first for Broward County and then for Miami itself. The first day on
that job was spent coordinating the paper’s coverage of Hurricane
Andrew, for which the Herald eventually won a Pulitzer
Prize. -30-